Disenchanted Latin Rite contemplating Eastern Catholic Church

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Woodstock said:
I encourage you to be part of the solution for your beloved western tradition. Finding a single priest willing to offer the TLM under the new moto proprio, offering daily prayers with others at the parish or in a home, sponsoring a book study, and any other number of things can help to do so.

If you can’t attend your local RC parishes while doing these things, by all means go to the EC parish. Out of respect and understanding, it would be nice if you were discreet about retaining any Latin customs and did not insist on any which are incompatible with the east, such as kneeling on a Sunday. Recognize it for what it is: a time of transition.

While you are there, you might fall in love with the eastern Church and all it has to offer, and if that happens then consider a change of church. If not, retain your love of the western practice and theology and work to restore it so that you can return to your home when the time comes.
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Amen. We in the west are having problems. But the East is not problem free. I think we should just all stay where we are and work to improve our own Churches unless we know God is calling us to move.
 
Ridgerunner said:
In my parish, we Anglos go to the English Mass. The Hispanics go to a Spanish Mass. If we had the TLM we could go to Mass together! Sometimes I wonder what some of these bishops are thinking!
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Do you think that the division would be erased and then all hyms would be said in Latin and readings done in both languages with two sermons?

Its not a magical solution.
 
GladCatholic said:
The Cathedral is stunning, and I see similarities in the DL with the Tridentine Mass in the Roman rite. However, I should’ve probably attended the liturgy in Ukrainian.
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Why should you have attended the liturgy in Ukrainian? A vernacular language you do not understand, is still a vernacular language… Given the choice between the two, and your newness to the DL prayers, why not hear them in English rather than attempt to follow in the pew book over the Ukrainian?
 
ASimpleSinner said:
Why should you have attended the liturgy in Ukrainian? A vernacular language you do not understand, is still a vernacular language… Given the choice between the two, and your newness to the DL prayers, why not hear them in English rather than attempt to follow in the pew book over the Ukrainian?
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I believe he said it would have removed the temptation to follow along in the book.
 
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